Good Morning, I will be talking about Navajo Gallup Water supply project, of course it is a key component in the
Navajo Nations settlement for their water right claims in the San Juan River in New Mexico.
There are other components of that settlement but Navajo Gallup is the the cornerstone of that settlement.
The important thing to note is that while it does settle the Navajos claims on the San Juan
River in New Mexico it does not address their claims in Northern Arizona or in Utah.
I've got a list of the project facilities that we are constructing
and here's a map showing
our service area, the light tan
color that you see there, most of northwest New Mexico, at the top there we got Farmington and Shiprock, down at the bottom is Gallup
so you're seeing the northwest corner of New Mexico we cover most of that area and little bit
into Arizona, we will have some project deliveries into Arizona.
We're talking about a service area of about 7,800 square miles which is roughly the size of the state in New Jersey.
Pipelines and two main pipelines one down the east side of the reservation one down the west side, in New Mexico
serving 43 chapters
eventually be serving
a population about 1/4 million people
that includes 43 chapters the Navajo nation the city of Gallup and Jicarilla Apache Nation.
We are currently with the construction we've got going on right now, we're estimating we've ccreated about 400 to 450 jobs.
That number is gonna go up as our construction ramps up we will probablly be hitting 600 to
650 jobs created as result of the construction on this project.
We had our on groundbreaking we started construction in 2012
We had a ceremony in early June 2012 on a reach of the pipeline just north of the city Gallup.
So we've got the pipe in the ground and you can see a picture there down in the lower corner there of some of our piping layed
that particular pipe is 42-inch pipe
Stepping back taking a looking at the budget forecast for the project
the project ceiling that was authorized by Congress was $870,000,000
in 2007 dollars.
We've adjusted that due to changes and construction cost indices are current estimate is now $1.088 billion.
We do have a mandatory completion date of December 31, 2024,
and the settlement does include nullification provisions were if we do not complete the project by that date
the Nation has the ability to void the settlement if we do not complete on time.
Down at the bottom we have a table here showing our appropriations history
the Presidents request for 2015 did include $81,000,000
for this project.
So in terms of what we got planned coming up for the next year,
of course we're going to continue our construction activities.
One of the unique things about this project is that we have entered into financial assistance agreements with the city of Gallup
and with the Navajo Nation and also into an interacency agreement with the Indian Health Service,
they are portions of the project that those entities have been studying for quite some time its more efficient for them to continue through
and design and construct those portions of the project
so the city of Gallup will be working on a design and construction of the project features right around and inside the city of Gallup.
The Indian Health Services are going to be working on design and construction of the facilities south east and west of Gallup
and then the Navajo Nation will be working on design and construction of facilities at the lower end of the cutter lateral
which is the eastern side of the project service area.
Reclamation will be doing the design and construction on all the other portions of the project.
So all four entities will have construction
starting in the next year
continuing next year
and of course our big component project is just a culture resources,
environmental compliance, monitoring land acquisitions, all those activities will continue the next year.
In terms of our
actual construction activities that are planned for the next year
Reclamation is currently working at Tohlakai pumping plant,
and then we will be awarding contracts for reach 22a which is on the cutter side
and then on the San Juan site reach 12b and reach 12.1 one will be awarded within the next year.
Navajo Nation has just recently awarded a contract starting construction on reache 24.1 and 25
again thats on the cutter side on the eastern side of the project
and then that would.. that contract is going to continue till about next year and half, they have other work
lined up beyond that. The City of Gallup has quite a few us sub-reaches to construct
their currently constructing reach 13 and reach 27.5 and their going to be putting in a contract on the street to award reach 27.6.
And the Indian Health Service will be working with the Navajo Engineering and Construction Authority
and they'll be starting construction on reach 14.1 and 14.2 which is in the area to the east of Gallup.
So in terms of the activity we've got coming, or planned for the next year, thats kind of a quick synopsis of what we've got coming up
in the next year.
I'm going to turn it over to Beverley Heffernan, she'll talk to you about LTEMP.